Man With Knife Fatally Shot by NYPD Officers in Brooklyn

Police work the scene in Brooklyn where a man was shot and killed by police Monday.

By Sarah Armaghan and Alison Fox

A 22-year-old Brooklyn man was shot and killed by police Monday afternoon after he lunged in their direction with a knife on a Bushwick street, a law-enforcement official said.

The man, whose name was not immediately released by police, stabbed at the window of a police cruiser with a knife, threw a glass at a livery cab and lunged at officers before the 3 p.m. shooting, a law-enforcement official said.

The suspect, who lives in the neighborhood, died en route to Woodhull Medical Center, police said. Officers involved in the shooting were taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for observation.

Police were initially called to the scene on Hart Street for a 911 call of a landlord and tenant dispute, the official said. When they arrived, the man allegedly stabbed the cruiser window with a knife before throwing a glass at the cab, according to the official.

The officers exited their vehicle and approached the man, yelling at him to drop the weapon, the official said. He lunged at one of the officers when they were between five and seven feet away, the official said, prompting one officer to fire several times, striking the man in the torso and left hand.

Samuel Martinez, 41 years old, said he saw the suspect with a knife in his hand as he started to run down the steps of a building.

“When the guy tried to charge them, that’s when they raised their guns,” Mr. Martinez said of the officers. “They were saying ‘He’s got a knife, he’s got a knife.’ [The man] kept on charging, he kept on running.”